{"id":7566,"date":"2014-06-27T15:29:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T15:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/06\/27\/las-vegas-class-weekend\/"},"modified":"2014-06-27T15:29:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T15:29:52","slug":"las-vegas-class-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/06\/27\/las-vegas-class-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Class Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nGreat class weekend, even with the Electric Daisy Carnival in town.  We are convinced that the if the lades used $50 a yard to make there very small bikini bathing suits they wore, they would get change from a $5 bill.  We raided 2 daughters and would not have let the girls out of the house dressed like that.  <\/p>\n<p>\tWe had a great group of students who came to learn and learn they did. The learning curve was excellent.  We had 2 instructors to no more than 4 students at each throwing station so instruction was intense.  <\/p>\n<p>\tThe no 7&#8217;s contest which is always fun had a new twist this year.  After several of the students had rolled a couple of turns we had 3 students in a 3 way tie.  In the finals the first one had 3 rolls.  The second who only needed 4 rolls but had a 3 roll as well.  As you might guess the third finalists had a 3 roll&#8212;again a 3 way tie.  Finally one of the Advanced Students had a decent roll and was the big winner.  Most entertaining and fun.<\/p>\n<p>\tIf you haven&#8217;t ever taken a class, I suggest you do so and if you have taken a class, sign up for a refresher.  Many of the primer students are well on there way to becoming all around advantage players.  Did not work with the Refreshers or Advanced students, but I am willing to bet there improvement was over the top.  <\/p>\n<p>\tNow to the fun part.  Rose and Doc did have the opportunity to play a little both before and after the class.  Although we do count each others rolls we don&#8217;t keep any permanent records as we are concentrating on our rolls and betting at the table.  We arrived on Tuesday late after a long plane ride and pretty much went to bed with some BJ and Pai Gow poker for low stakes.  On Wed not much happened but a few in the teens but way to many rolls where we would have a quick 7 out.  Then we ran into several instructors and former students.  Again a few decent rolls with a few in the teens but nothing to write home about.<\/p>\n<p>\tThen it happened.  Raf got the dice and proceeded to roll a 48 according to Rose and several others and  we were way ahead&#8211;thanks Raf.  Raf was right on as I could see numbers on the dice and they were perfect.  Thursday was set up and we were too tired to play but lost a little back.  Friday was open house and the Meet and greet followed by class all day Sat and Sun.  <\/p>\n<p>\tPlayed a little on Sunday night but called it a night.<\/p>\n<p>\tThen came Monday.  The dice went around once with nothing to brag about and finally came back to Doc.  Started out with 2 craps and an 11 so dice not looking too good.  Made a slight adjustment to the grip (Grip is 85% of a good throw) and banged out a 47.  Was double dipping several numbers (come and place bets on the same number) before the ugly 7 finally showed its head.  Our best money maker.  <\/p>\n<p>\tWent to bed Monday night and we decided to lock up our winnings&#8211;11 new portraits of Ben&#8211;and headed to the airport, but not before we made a couple of stops so that Rose could hit a couple of fabric stores to get a few supplies for her business\/hobby of making purses.<\/p>\n<p>\tAn outstanding class weekend and a winning weekend to boot.  It doesn&#8217;t get any better than that.  <\/p>\n<p>\tHope to see everyone soon.<\/p>\n<p>\tRose and Doc<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> TheLion on June 27, 2014, 5:36 pm<\/p>\n<div>Winning trips are awesome<\/p>\n<p>\tPortraits of Ben &#8212; Love it &#8212; I&#8217;m looking forward to stuffing my fanny pack with some this weekend in AC;  Going to my favorite place tonight &#8212; not too many more trips left to that place as it&#8217;s shutting the doors the end of September (OUCH !!) &#8212; seems like my favorite places are getting reduced each and every year<\/p>\n<p>\tLooking forward to seeing you &amp; Rose sometime soon !!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great class weekend, even with the Electric Daisy Carnival in town. We are convinced that the if the lades used $50 a yard to make there very small bikini bathing suits they wore, they would get change from a $5&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}